Submissions: 2013 July

nuclearcat · Post by **nuclearcat** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 1:16 am

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Here is a picture of a lunar transit of ISS in daytime. We took this image early in last morning. While we were taking this, the sky was so bright so an intense post-processing is required to show the station clearly on this stacked image. Frames were taken from a video obtained by a Canon EOS 600D attached to a Celestron 125mm SCT. The bad quality is due to intense post processing to give more details. Here you can also find a video on youtube (you may need to watch twice to catch it)

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Credits: Efe Tuncel & M. Raşid Tuğral

geckzilla · Post by **geckzilla** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 1:42 am

Twice? I had to watch it three or four times at full screen and 1080p before I could catch it at the 5 o'clock position coming in. It's easiest to spot as it is leaving.

nvc123 · Post by **nvc123** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 9:32 am

NGC6826 with Ha/OIII halo
http://astro-billeder.dk/index.html
Copyright: Niels V. Christensen

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The raw material was taken during April, May and July 2013.
The picture consist of raw frames/subs taken with LX200ACF 16" and camera Atik 460ex mono.
Exposure time using Baader 1.25" filters:
Ha=42*5min,
OIII=42*5min,
Lum=28*5sec+16*60sec,
Red=66*30sec+35*2sec,
Green=72*30sec+17*2sec,
Blue=69*30sec+16*2sec.
The picture shown is a composite picture made of above mentioned narrowband/lum/color stacks.
The halo around NGC6826 consist of Ha and OIII information.
More and widefield pictures with higher resolution of NGC 6826 can be found on my web site.

owlice · Post by **owlice** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 3:34 pm

The Little Iris and many friends (in Cygnus)
Copyright: Harel Boren

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Dark Lane Doodad and NGC 4372
Copyright: Harel Boren
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North American Nebula and Pelican Nebula in modified Hubble Palette
Copyright: Matthew Reiche
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Possible Supernova in M74 - PSN J01364816+1545310
http://bit.ly/1bvi1OS
Copyright: Ernesto Guido & Nick Howes
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=31823
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Inside the observatory
85 mm Reflector Telescope in Astronomical Observatory, San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico
Copyright: Juan Miguel Castillo Navarro
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JoeR · Post by **JoeR** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 5:57 pm

M4 Globular Cluster
http://www.joerenzetti.com/gallery/
Copyright: Joe Renzetti

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A very ancient globular cluster about 12.2 billion years old. HST found white dwarfs in it as old as 13 billion. One such white dwarf has been found to be a binary star with a pulsar companion, PSR B1620-26 and a planet orbiting it with a mass of 2.5 times that of Jupiter. Nestled within the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex in Scorpius this globular shimmers with gold as it is surrounded by interstellar dust and gas.

Turnit Tops · Post by **Turnit Tops** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 6:07 pm

Copyright: Grant Salmond

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Caption: There was a half moon at this time and so the landscape in the background was lit up quite brightly. The sign in the foreground was lit by the headlights of passing road trains on the highway from Longreach to Winton in outback Queensland, Australia. Initially I was worried the headlights would ruin the photo, but they lit up the sign just nicely.
Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mars73/8666295125/

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Caption: a bronze statue of Australovenator Wintonensis at the Australian Age Of Dinosaurs museum in silhouette.
Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mars73/8919116950/

lup974 · Post by **lup974** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 7:13 pm

Appetizer with friends around a fire and under the Milky Way at Reunion Island
http://www.lucperrot.fr
https://www.facebook.com/lucperrotphoto
Copyright: Luc Perrot

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Florian Kainz · Post by **Florian Kainz** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 3:58 am

Waves in the Sea of Clouds

Seen from an airplane in this anaglyph picture, a dense layer of coastal fog covers California's San Francisco Bay in the morning just after sunrise. The top of the fog forms waves that look a bit like the surf on a beach. Mount Tamalpais, Lucas Valley and Burdell Mountain are visible in the distance.

This is an anaglyph 3D picture; use red-cyan or red-blue glasses to view it.

Waves in the Sea of Clouds - 3D Anaglyph by fksr, on Flickr

Florian Kainz · Post by **Florian Kainz** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 4:01 am

The Antisolar Point

When you stand outside on a sunny day, the antisolar point - the direction opposite of the sun - is easy to find: just look for the shadow of your head. When you are flying in an airplane at high altitude, then you won't be able to spot the plane's shadow, but if you are flying over a city, you can still see the antisolar point: it is the spot where street signs, car license plates and other retroreflecting objects glow brightly because they reflect the sunlight directly at you.
Here the cluster of bright lights on the ground is crossing highway 14 east of Santa Clarita, California (the plane is traveling right to left).

The Antisolar Point by fksr, on Flickr

conemmil · Post by **conemmil** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 6:14 am

There is a very bright supernova happening at M74 galaxy and was recently discovered by Lick Observatory. This morning at 01:45UT i made this observation of the SN from my robotic observatory at Nea Magnisia Thessaloniki. At the time of the observation, the explosion had a magnitude of 12.4Mag and its of type II. The image was made with a 12" Catadioptric reflector and a CCD Camera.

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Kind regards
Constantine Emmanouilidi

cfm2004 · Post by **cfm2004** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 6:35 am

Another image from my backyard near Adriatic See:

Location: San Romualdo - Ravenna (Italy)
Pentax75 on ASA DDM60PRO
CCD QSI 583ws cooled -17
Unguided images
Astrodon Narrowband H-alpha 3nm and RGB Astrodon E-series Gen2 filters
RGB+HA: HA (Tot. 6H30' Bin.2), R (Tot. 3H25'), G (Tot. 3H05'), B (Tot.3H)
Acquired with MaximDL5
Dark, Bias and Flat subtract
Processed with MaximDL5, Astroart4 and Paint Shop Pro X4

Best regards,
Cristina Cellini

felopaul · Post by **felopaul** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 5:59 pm

NGC6960 : first light 500mm

Skymeca 20"CDK @ F6.8. Moravian-G4 camera. SHO 23h total.
Calibrated and processed with Pixinsight.

NGC6888 : new processed with pixinsight

tec140 @ F7 QSI640 camera. SHO 34h total.
Calibrated and processed with Pixinsight.

Copyright: Laurent BOURGON , Didier CHAPLAIN
http://www.felopaul.com

NRCarlson9721 · Post by **NRCarlson9721** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:44 pm

Though APOD has featured many spectacular views over the years of Comet Hale-Bopp, here’s one from a little different viewpoint- the mirror’s eye view. For this picture in 1997, the 35mm film camera with a 50mm lens was mounted above the mirror of my 18” Dobsonian-mounted telescope, aimed out past the secondary mirror. In silhouette on the left, I manually tracked this time exposure, in order to record the blue ion and the white dust tails, which were clearly visible to the naked eye. While waiting impatiently for Comet ISON, I find myself reviewing Hale-Bopp photos more and more lately.

VegaStar · Post by **VegaStar** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 10:26 am

The "MONKEYME" Planet
Copyright : VegaStarCarpentier
https://www.facebook.com/VegastarCarpentierPHOTOGRAPHY

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Just for Fun...

)))
Best Regards,
VegaStar

conemmil · Post by **conemmil** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 2:33 pm

At the beginning of July, we had our annual national amateur astronomers observation in Mt Grammos which is located in the Northern Greece, about 50km from Kastoria city. This imaging sequence shows how the stars and busy observers, all under a trully dark sky, are painting with light into the camera’s imaging sensor! There is even a green laser pointer which was used as a marker to the night sky for new sky watchers.

The image is a composition of 304 30sec exposures taken with a Canon 5D and a Sigma 15mm lens at f3.5.

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Kind Regards
Constantine Emmanouilidi

Greg Parker · Post by **Greg Parker** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 5:13 pm

Witch's Broom and Pickering's Triangle region in Cygnus

Copyright Prof. Greg Parker

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rcolombari · Post by **rcolombari** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 10:32 pm

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Single 35-minute shot.

Full version: http://www.astrobin.com/49985/0/?mod=none

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 8:49 am

Venus and Zodiacal Light
Copyrights: Luis Argerich

Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower
Copyrights: John Chumack

Chromosphéric Cloud
Copyrights: J P Brahic

Washington Monument and Venus
Copyrights: Dennis Schatz

Horsehead Nebula drawing
Copyrights: Raphael Sherriff

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 12:11 pm

M7 (Ptolemy Cluster)
Copyrights: Roberto Colombari

Polaris is several km that way
Distance: 4077487635167800km (2718325090111867m)
Copyrights: James McCormac
More sizes can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmccormac0 ... otostream/

NGC5128 (Centaurus A)
Copyrights: Ype de Lang

The Prawn Nebula (NGC 6231)with Caldwell 67
Jeff Woods

Comet 29P/S-W outburst - June to July 2013
Copyrights: Damian Peach

redomatic · Post by **redomatic** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:45 pm

ISS in dead space
https://www.facebook.com/RedomaticsPhotograpics
Copyright: Michael McCulloch
The ISS passing in front of the Milky Way (or is that through?)

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Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 10:03 pm

Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae
Copyrights: Phil Baker

Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower
Copyrights: John Chumack

ALMA Space Observatory
Copyrights: Adhemar Duro
More ALMA pictures: http://dashburst.com/pic/alma-space-observatory-brazil/

Sandgirl · Post by **Sandgirl** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 10:27 pm

BORREGO STARDANCE - 5 stills
Copyrights: Gavin Heffernan

jimstar · Post by **jimstar** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 11:59 pm

jimstar wrote:NGC 6960 "The Witches Broom" in narrow band- Ha(10hrs) + OIII(5hrs)
Copyrights: James Collins

Larger image URL:
http://jimstar11.com/NGC6960_Bicolor-sm.jpg
Web Site: Meadow View Observatory
http://jimstar11.com

Starship Asterisk*

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Bright Supernova in M74

NGC7635, M52 and family

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Stars and Observers are taking seriously the Light Painting!

Witch's Broom region in Cygnus

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